My name is Pat Korican and I am a certified personal trainer through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA).

I am also owner of and an Athletic Performance Trainer at CrossFit Griffin, a newly-established strength and conditioning facility located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

What am I all about?

My passion lies in helping others discover and reach their potential. I strive to do this through providing my clients with all the support, motivation and knowledge they need pertaining to fitness and overall well-being.

My training methodology is founded on a simple premise — that of functional fitness.

What exactly is Functional Fitness?

How do you define “being fit”?

Is a marathon runner the epitome of fitness to you? How about a bodybuilder? Think again.

True fitness isn’t just about being able to run for hours on end without stopping. It isn’t all about aesthetics, either — I believe you’ve heard stories about bodybuilders who can’t run a mile to save their lives.

Functional Fitness can be described as the ability to perform a broad array of natural or realistic physical work. It involves movement in multiple planes of movements, all the while utilizing multiple joints.

Think about the process involved in picking up a heavy object from the ground — something you’re likely to occur in the daily course of life. Shouldn’t your training enable you to deal with such occurrences, by mimicking these movements? Unfortunately, most popular exercise routines champion the use of isolation movements (for instance, bicep curls, pec flyes) over compound, multi-joint movements (like standing presses, squats) in regular training. These isolation movements do not generate the ideal adaptive response and can hardly be applied in real-life situations.

I strongly believe in compound, functional movements as part of workouts and apply these liberally throughout my own training as well as that of my clients’.